By Loretta Kalb
lkalb@sacbee.com
The incident began with an argument between a man and a woman.
It evolved into a whole lot more than that, Sacramento city police say.
And it was just one of a number of incidents that kept police busy over the weekend.
Police said the couple's argument was reported at 1:30 a.m. outside a business on Stockton Boulevard south of Mack Road.
It turned ugly, police said, when the man jumped into his car and drove toward the woman. He missed hitting her. Instead, he drove through the front window of the business, causing substantial damage, police said.
He fled the scene, police said, but was stopped by a member of the Sacramento Sheriff's Department near Power Inn Road and Haystack Drive.
Ethan Tsubasa Thao, 32, was booked into the Sacramento County Jail for investigation of felony assault with a deadly weapon and for misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police said they investigated a carjacking that was reported shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday near Gateway Oaks Drive and Weald Way in the north area.
The victim told officers he pulled his car off the road because it was making strange noises. Three men walked up to him and asked to use his phone.
Then two pulled out pistols and demanded the man's car before driving way.
Officers called to the site checked the area and found the vehicle less than a mile away at Venture Oaks and Gateway, unoccupied.
No word on whether the car had quit running.
At about the same time Saturday, a man confronted a parking control officer after his car was being ticketed for a parking violation in a lot in the 1500 block of West El Camino Avenue. Police said the man asked the amount of the fine, and when didn't like what he heard, he threw a soda at the officer and left the area, police said.
Meanwhile, other officers got into a chase shortly before midnight after an officer tried to stop a motorist speeding at Western and Butterword avenues in the north area. The driver initially pulled over, but then sped away, police said. The pursuit ended shortly when the driver stopped his car in front of his residence. Police said the suspect was on parole. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Property crimes were investigated, too. Burglaries were reported at multiple locations during the weekend, including a partially abandoned warehouse in the 4600 block of Raley Boulevard near McClellan Park early today and at a residence in the 500 block of Hartnell Place southeast of Fair Oaks Boulevard mid-morning Saturday.
In the warehouse burglary, four individuals were seen fleeing the area on bicycles. Security officers apprehended one of the riders. The building had been forcibly entered, and multiple cooling units with copper wire were found at the rear of the warehouse and at an adjacent complex. Police took the bike rider into custody.
In the residential burglary, the victim came home after being gone for a few days and found her home ransacked.
Another burglary reported shortly before 4 a.m. today in the 4600 block of Freeport Boulevard resulted in the arrest of a suspect, 41-year-old Robert Whalen, for investigation of burglary.
Officers who responded to a ringing alarm found Whalen loitering in an adjacent parking lot and reported that they had connected him to the crime. The business had a broken front window and a cinder block stepping stone near the broken glass.
Call The Bee's Loretta Kalb, (916) 321-1073.
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